CAM-256
Smoke from the machine and oil on the floor
Mid-afternoon in the machine shop. A column of white smoke rises from the right-hand side of the machining centre up to the extraction duct. At the base of the smoke there is a glowing orange spot. On the floor in front of the machine, a dark oil puddle already covers four floor slabs and is still dripping. Two operators in hard hats have stopped to look; one is calling it in. IRIS sees the smoke and the puddle from the first second.
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AI-generated image
What IRIS understands
What it recognises in this scene
- smoke coming out of the machine
- oil puddle on the floor
- machining centre still running
- operator calling it in
- operator pointing at the machine
- machine extraction duct
What this camera measures
An alert says something is happening. The reading says how much.
- 2 min 10 sTime smoke has been visible
- 4Floor slabs covered by the puddle
- 2People next to the machine
- 3Alerts on this machine this week
- 16:12Time the smoke started
The figures on this screen are an example from the illustration, not any client's measurement.
The rule
You decide once. IRIS applies it always.
If
smoke or a liquid patch appears around the machine
Then
- alert maintenance with the camera, the machine and the time
- save the video of the three minutes before the first wisp
- time the alert until the smoke is gone from the shot
The instruction that set it up«Tell me if smoke comes out of a machine or a puddle appears on the shop floor.»
What changes
What changes for whoever answers for the plant
A bearing running hot and a leaking hose end up the same way: in a long stoppage, or in a small fire at four in the morning with nobody around. What the camera changes is not the repair, it is the minute. The maintenance manager gets the alert while the smoke is still just smoke, with the machine named and the video of the minutes before. And the oil puddle stops being a fall waiting for somebody.
What people usually ask
Does IRIS detect smoke without detectors?
Yes, when the smoke can be seen. The camera recognises a column that grows and moves where there was nothing before, and raises the alert. What it does not do is measure gases or particles: that is what a detector is for. With a thermal camera it does read the heat that shows on the outside of the machine. A fault inside a closed unit, with no smoke and no visible heat, cannot be seen from outside by anyone.
Can it tell smoke from steam or dust?
Partly, and it is worth saying so. A cloud of coolant vapour and a cloud of smoke look very much alike in an image. That is why the rule is tuned with the shop floor present: it is shown which clouds are normal on that machine and at what time they appear. Anything it cannot tell apart is flagged anyway, and a person looks at it.
Does IRIS stop the machine when it sees smoke?
No. IRIS raises the alert; it does not stop anything and does not send anybody anywhere. The emergency stop and the fire protocol belong to the plant, and a person makes the call. What the camera adds is the exact minute, the specific machine and the video of what came before, so that the person decides with more than a shout across the hall.
Other cameras
- CAM-240 · The line has stopped with a pallet jammed inside
- CAM-241 · The line is running, but a gap opens every few seconds
- CAM-242 · A mountain of parts has built up in front of one machine
- CAM-243 · The cell is ready and the bin is empty
- CAM-244 · A copper coil mounted on a steel line
- CAM-245 · A unit moves down the line with no cover on
Simulation · how IRIS works
Everything comes in. Only what matters gets through.
This sums up what IRIS does with one alert, from the moment it appears until it is closed. The real screen holds far more; this is the main thread.
- Checks the whole system
- Flags what is failing
- Puts it on one screen
Next step
Who sees the child who has fallen at the far end of the playground?
13 cases: 12 raise an alert when something happens and 1 only measure. You see each image as it is, and then with what IRIS understands on top.
Who is watching a site where there is almost never anybody?
44 cases, and in every one of them IRIS raises an alert when something happens. You see each image as it is, and then with what it understands on top.
And the best part
The rule does not decide anything.It just never forgets, and it tells the person who decides.
You write once what needs watching, and it holds at three in the morning just as at noon. What to do with the alert is still a person’s decision.
Tell us your problem and we will say whether IRIS understands it, or not yet.
We reply the same working day.